Abalone

These stories are of our beginnings, how things came to be.One such story is of Abalone Woman a beautiful woman of Wiyot country. One can only imagine that she was loved by her family, who also knew the ways and laws of the people.

"Tears began falling down her cheeks. And as the tears touched the water, the water began to turn all these beautiful colors, and all these shells appeared, and she herself transformed. The young woman transformed into the abalone, and so she became our beautiful abalone shell that we use today for our regalia."